Today’s Doodle honours Francisco González Bocanegra, the Mexican poet and playwright who wrote the words for the Mexican National Anthem, or Himno Nacional Mexicano. Francisco González Bocanegra was born into a Spanish family in San Luis Potosi on this day in 1824. Bocanegra spent seven years in Spain after the federal edict for all Spaniards…
NASA engineers are spending the day researching the giant James Webb Space Telescope’s power subsystem to ensure the telescope is ready to perform a critical procedure: tensioning its vast sunshield. The Webb space telescope, which launched on Dec. 25, is currently undergoing a month-long deployment operation to ready it for data collection. However, the majority…
According to the Gregorian calendar, New Year’s Day (January 1) is one of the most celebrated holidays. People all across the world celebrate this day with family and friends or in large gatherings. They throw parties, adorn their houses, and bake for their loved ones. The world celebrates the New Year with great zeal and…
The massive sunshield for the James Webb Space Telescope is one step closer to being completed. The massive new space observatory’s deployable tower assembly (DTA), a 48-inch-long (1.2-meter) shaft that joins the telescope’s two sections, was successfully extended on Wednesday (Dec. 29), NASA officials announced in a statement. The DTA on the James Webb Space…
Comet Leonard, which last passed by Earth 80,000 years ago, has been dazzling the night sky in the days leading up to Christmas, and there are only a few days left to observe it before it vanishes forever. In a spectacular animated sequence of photographs from Friday to Sunday, the imager onboard the Solar Orbiter,…
After winning a presidential runoff election on Sunday, leftist and former student leader Gabriel Boric, 35, will become Chile’s youngest president since the country’s return to democracy in 1990. Boric received 55.87 percent of the vote with 99.95 percent of ballots counted, defeating his right-wing opponent, Jose Antonio Kast, who received 44.13 percent, according to…
Today’s Doodle honours Carrie Best, a Canadian activist, novelist, writer, publisher, and broadcaster who co-founded The Clarion, one of the first Nova Scotian newspapers owned and run by Black Canadians, and is illustrated by Toronto, Ontario, Canada-based guest artist Alexis Eke. Best was named a Member of the Order of Canada in 1974 for her…
At a congressional tribute service on Thursday, President Joe Biden and key legislative leaders paid respect to the late Republican Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, who was laid to rest at the United States Capitol. “We meet here in the very heart of American democracy — the Capitol of the United States of America —…
While traversing Von Kármán crater on the far side of the moon, China’s Yutu 2 rover observed a mysterious object on the horizon. According to a Yutu 2 diary published by Our Space, a Chinese language science outreach channel affiliated with the China National Space Administration, Yutu 2 spotted a cube-shaped object on the horizon…
The first living robots, known as xenobots, were constructed by US scientists who claim that they can now reproduce in a way that plants and animals cannot. Xenobots are made from the stem cells of the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis), from which they get their name. They’re only a millimetre (0.04 inch) wide. After…